Personal Items.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17627, 2 December 1922, Page 16

Personal Items.

His Excellency the GovernorGeneral, attended the Industrial Exhibition yesterday afternoon, and also inspected Lane, Walker, and Budkin's faotory. This afternoon he will attend the Rannerdale Pete at about 2.15 p.m. He will leave for Wellington to-night, and will start for Auckland on Monday. After a stay of a few days there he will make a tour to include Marton, Wanganui, and Taihape, Messrs R. L. M. Kitto and T, J, Maling, who have been visiting Greymouth, returned by motor-car yesterday. Mr J. B Moßride haa been appoint. Ed to tlie' position of instructor in Matliematics and Scieuce at the Oflmtchurch Technical Coi^g 6 - Mr Sydney Butler, oonductor of the Royal Musical Society, leaves this morning for Dunedin, where he is taking the tenor role in two performances of '"Hie Messiah" next week. The Hon. Sir Francis Bell returned to New Zealand from Jingland and.tne Continent by" the Tahiti, which arrived at Wellington yesterday from &an Francisco. At last night's meeting of the Beard of Governors of the Chnstchurch Technical College, Mr G. xl. Holford who was recently elected to the Board, was welcomed by the chairman, Mr U, aOpie. Colonel Barclay, Grand Secretary or the Masonic Grand Lodge of Now Zealand, has now taken up his residence in Ohristchurch, where the Lodge will be located during tho next two years. Among the guests at the Clarendon nre: DrJ. P. Frengloy, of. Wellington, and Messrs R. Dawson, To Awamutu, C. G. Welkin, Oamnru, C W. Sharp, Auckland, G. H. Walton, Timaru, i. H. Saunders,, Timaru, Spencer Harper, Australia, and G. Freeman, Timaru. Mr N. P. Nflal, B.Agr., nt P«*ent lecturer on the staff of Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln, has bee" appointed to the position of Agricultural Master at St. Andrew's CollegeMr Neal has given part-time instruction at St. Andrew's for about two years. He begins his now duties in tne 'first term of next year.

Mr F. Simpson, of Wellington, has been ui-foint-ftd superintendent of too Ttiyercai-gill Fire Brigade. There were ]G applicants for the position, and tna other four left in the final ballot wore Senior Foreman 3'i. H. Price (of the Soi.tli Dunedin sub-station), Foreman O. B. Elliott (of the Uunedin City Brigade), Fireman V. Armstrong (of the i'imaru Brigade), and Foreman ron. Mr Simpson is a member of the Wellington City Brigade (central station), ar.d baR been connected with t" e brigade for nine- vears. Ho will coiu-KK-iice-his new duties on January 12th. Taranaki's appreciation of the soiv vires to that diocese of the late Righ* Ite-vwrend Moore Richard Neligan, D.D., Bishop of Auckland from 1903 to I'JIO. ivm expressed at a most impressive memorial service at New Plymouth yesterday morning (says a Press Association message). Dr. A. W. Averill. Bishop of Auckland, officiated. Dr> Averill. in paying a. tribute to the sterling qualities "of the lute Dr. Neligan, referred_ to tho difficulties encountered by him, in spite of which lie did wonderful work,